Hell no!
Chapter 8 Party planning (Nico)
When I woke up, it wasn't because of a nightmare this time, it was because Hazel was shaking me awake.
''Neeks, wake up, we have to go to the bus in ten minutes! We're late!'' That woke me up and we raced downstairs with our backpacks over our shoulders. We quickly got some breakfast, grabbed our lunch money and then we walked out the front door and ran towards the bus. We sat down and waited for Annabeth and Piper to sit down in front of us. When they arrived, the girls started talking about our first class of the day, history, and the free period after. They decided that we would go to the library in our free period to study or read or something.
At school we went to our lockers to grab our books, then we went to history, which we all had together. We sat down halfway down the class. Piper and Annabeth sat in front of me and Hazel, and we all talked about what kind of teacher we would have. Then a man with a brown beard walked into the class and everyone was silent immediately.
''Hello to our new students, my name is Mr. Brunner. For history today we are with the Greeks and the Romans. We are going to start where we left of last lesson. Can someone please summarize for our new students?'' He pointed to a girl who had her hand raised.
''We talked about how the Greeks were the –'' the girl started. And then, when she was finished, the lesson started. It was about Greek and Roman art forms, and it was sort of interesting. At the end of the lesson the teacher gave us a page with some exercises to make at home and then he told us to pack up.
Me and the girls went to the library, and on our way there, we met Frank, Cecil and Katie, who were also going to the library, so we decided to all go together. We went to a secluded spot in the library and started talking in whispered voices.
''Hey, you guys exited for Friday?'' Cecil asked.
''Yeah, I am. But you guys have to watch out for my dad, he's very noisy…'' Piper answered.
''Hey Hazel, are you excited?'' Frank asked her, nervously.
''Yes, I am. But I don't know what to expect. We've only hung out with the fi..four of us actually…'' she answered, trying to hide that we used to be with five, with Bianca.
''Oh, you want to watch out for Connor and Travis when playing Truth or Dare, they come up with the most brutal dares ever!'' Katie said quickly, to avoid for us to have to talk about Bianca.
''Yeah, this one time – ow, Katie!'' Cecil started, before Katie cut him off with a well-placed kick on his shin and a glare.
''But don't worry too much, it'll stay between the ten of us. We won't spread things around school, we've had some pretty embarrassing things happen during those games.'' Frank said reassuringly.
''And we have that barbecue after, which your dad said he'd arrange. How's that going to work, Piper?'' Annabeth asked, ''Or is it going to go like last time, when he was to work 'till so late, we ended up ordering pizza?''
''No he said he'd be free all Friday afternoon, because they are nearly done with his involvement in the project he's working on, so he asked for that afternoon off about two weeks ago, to celebrate the first week of the new school.'' Piper answered, avoiding telling them who her father is.
''Piper, it'll be fine, we can eat pizza if he forgets, no prob!'' I said. The seven of us talked about it for a while longer, before the bell went off and we went to lunch.
''Hey peeps.'' Travis said. ''Exited for Friday? I sure am!'' Katie giggled. She's so obviously into him, but I guess she's shy to tell him…
''We were just talking about that in the library, guys!'' Cecil answered.
''And we warned them beforehand about the two of you!'' Katie said to Travis.
''Katie, that's no fun!'' Connor said. ''It had to be a surprise!''
''Well, your kind of fun isn't the same as ours, Stoll!'' Lou said.
''I'm making the group chat on WhatsApp for Friday, okay?'' Piper said. We all nodded, and she got her phone out of her backpack.
Five minutes later a groups alert appeared: Piper McLean has added you to the group Party people
Travis: Exited for Friday!
Connor: Dude, we all are!
Lou: You 2 are annoying!
Katie: What a surprise…
Frank: You know how they are, Katie
Travis: HEY! Play nice!
Cecil: Yeah, you should say…
Piper: Does a group always go like this? Because with us…
Little sis : With us it went differently…
Katie: This is pretty normal, actually, which is sorta sad…
Annabeth: Well, it's different than normal, but that's OK
Me: Sure…
We all put our phones away and ate something. Then everything went silent. Of course, those three walked by and went to sit down at our table.
''Hey Piper,'' Jason said.
''Hi,'' she answered, cheeks getting a little pink.
''Hey Annabeth, how's lunch?'' Percy said.
''Uhm, okay, it's fine…'' Annabeth said blushing.
Those four were flirting with each other now. In the meantime fuckboy aka Will sat down next to me, ''Ugh.''
''Ah, someone is in a bad mood!'' he said cheerfully.
''Yeah, because a fuckboy just sat down here.'' I retorted.
''That's not nice, you know.''
''I know.'' I answered him, while eating my sandwich. He was silent for a minute, but then he started talking again. That annoying idiot!
''You know, Nico, you could at least try to be nice to me.''
''This is me being nice to you, Solace!'' Okay, that's not entirely true. I could be nicer, but I just really don't wanna, 'cause he's annoying as fuck.
''Now we're getting somewhere! At least you don't insult me anymore, so just say my first name instead of my last, and we're going to get along great!'' he smiled.
''Whatever, Solace!'' I went back to my lunch. Yum, mom had gotten us a cupcake, and by the looks of it it's one of Bianca's recipe. She always made them for us when we were sad. I looked at it, it looked so good.
''Can I have a bite? That cupcake looks really good!''
''No you cannot have a bite of my cupcake!'' I said angrily. This is my cupcake, and it's Bianca's, so no one can have it. I saw Hazel look at me, and then at my cupcake. She understood, she had one just like it she was sharing with Frank. They really are cute together.
''Stop asking about his cupcake, he doesn't want to share! Here,'' she said, while breaking a little bit of hers off, ''you can have a little bit of mine. Now stop bugging my brother!''
Will accepted the piece of Hazel's cupcake and ate it. ''Hmm, really tasty!''
''Yeah, our mother made them, and she's Italian.'' Hazel said, before I could say anything. She shot me a warning look, as if to say, don't you dare say anything!
Then the bell sounded and Will, Percy and Jason walked away. I looked at my schedule and said I had English for my last double period. Luckily so had Hazel, Frank, Annabeth, Lou, Piper and Cecil. So we all walked to the English classroom together. But when we arrived there, I saw Percy, Jason and, oh no, Will standing there…
AN: The bold part is texting (with smilies :P)
AN2: Checked, corrected and now posted as well. Wow. (Note the sarcasm...)